Shadows

I am that which was, was never, Is, is not, shall be and shall not be. I am unsubstantial existence, vague Being. I am Unreality, a dreamy fog floating in this abyss Of Self Beyond Self. I live but I do not exist. I have being but I have no form. Men desire me but they now not what I am Or from whence I come. I come from nowhere and I am because I came not And go not. I am the essence of Nothing, the heights of Attainment, the shade of a dim cloud that has no Existence. I am built out of the fabric of Unreality and Nonexistence and I am as powerful As Babel, as unstable as a sea-fog. Men are my slaves. Only a free man can be my slave. If a man be not free, he is no slave; And being my slave, then only is he free.